Sir Alex Ferguson: I thought City would spend more

The Manchester United manager was in attacking mode in his first press
conference of the new season as he mocked and berated journalists in between
commenting on rivals Manchester City ahead of the Community Shield.

4:18PM BST 05 Aug 2011

Alex Ferguson started the new season as he left the last, by attacking the press. The Manchester United manager called the journalists present the "same ugly bunch" and accused one of the new faces in the crowd of monopolising the conference.

In between that he insisted he would treat the Community Shield as a warm-up to the new season, despite it being "very easy to get emotional" while facing his Manchester City, whom he once described as "noisy neighbours".